[cancer] The world's weirdest drug side effect: Eyelashes

I'm on Vectibix, which is an anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody. One side effect of this type of drug is excessive eyelash growth.

Seriously.

I am not kidding.

Of late my vision has been getting foggy due to runaway eyelash growth. And people have been commenting on my unusually lush eyelashes, included various nurses while I was in the hospital recently. So last night, the_child and Mother of the Child undertook to trim my eyelashes. Lisa Costello was kind enough to photo document. (Note this is a profound act of trust in your trimmer's very steady hands.)


My right eyelashes have been trimmed, my left eyelashes have not yet


The operation in progress


Me, trying not to struggle

Yeah, cancer is weird. The Great Eyelash Caper of Ought Thirteen brought to you by my disease and its discontents.

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Photos © 2013 Lisa Costello. Reproduced with permission.



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